Comments on: Supreme Court justice takes a jab at the Mets

By: umrguy42

umrguy42 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:41:21 +0000

Well, I consider myself a conservative, and thus don’t necessarily agree with Kagan’s politics… but I think I like her overall, especially between this, and her talking about how her clerks all played Mortal Kombat (I think) during the CA video game rating case last year/year before. Nice to see someone who isn’t dreadfully boring and dry i their opinion prose, I guess. (Admittedly, that may be an unfair stereotype based on no real evidence, but still.)

By: Roger Moore

Roger Moore — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:06:56 +0000

Stevens isn’t just a Cubs fan. He’s been a Cubs fan for long enough to have watched Babe Ruth call his shot in the 1932 World Series. Yes, he was actually at the game, and is on record saying that Ruth really did call his shot.

By: nineroutsider

nineroutsider — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:32:18 +0000

How did this thread avoid of the political blowhards from both parties coming here to win the hearts and minds of the HBT readers? Impressive…

By: 4letterman

4letterman — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:41:48 +0000

Touche!!!

By: mgv38

mgv38 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:10:29 +0000

And I am sure whichever team Scalia roots for, Thomas does too. Silently, of course.

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:53:43 +0000

Houston resembles that remark.

By: Tim OShenko

Tim OShenko — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:48:12 +0000

East coast bias! How can we count on true justice when the Supreme Court is clearly indifferent to the fate of small-market, Midwest teams?

By: sdelmonte

sdelmonte — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:48:04 +0000

D’oH! I totally forgot that!

Then again, I suspect most of us can name the starting nine of our teams a lot more easily than the nine justices.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:24:40 +0000

And, Sam Alito is a Phills fan. Stephen Breyer is a Red Sox fan. John Paul Stevens is a Cubbies fan.

By: shawndc04

shawndc04 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:19:07 +0000

>>A quick search reveals she is a Mets fan, to balance out Sotomayor the Yankees fan and David Souter the Red Sox fan.<<

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Justice Souter is no longer on the Court; so it's NY v. NY.

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:16:52 +0000

Boy, when you want to nail down futility just right, you go for the best argument you can think of, I guess: The Mets. But surely Supreme Court justice Kagan could have used for her “not an” sometimes equaling “not all” example a much better exemplar of futility? Unless I’m badly mistaken, there is another team with “no chance whatsoever” that better fits that description. They know who they are.

By: captainwisdom8888

captainwisdom8888 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:12:05 +0000

It is a known fact that when a girl insults you…it hurts twice as much. Science people…

By: sdelmonte

sdelmonte — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:10:18 +0000

A quick search reveals she is a Mets fan, to balance out Sotomayor the Yankees fan and David Souter the Red Sox fan.